Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the most versatile, reliably great actors of his generation, was found dead in his apartment Sunday of an apparent drug overdose. The 46-year-old Oscar winner leaves behind three young children and an uncommonly unimpeachable body of work.

Part of that legacy: one of the funniest basketball scenes of all time.

"Along Came Polly" is a bad movie. It's a bad, bad, bad movie, for a lot of reasons — but Hoffman, playing an off-the-rails former child star named Sandy Lyle, was not one of them. That's why, as news of Hoffman's death spread, "Along Came Polly" wound up trending across the world. The basketball scene is that funny. It's that memorable.

Watch this and remember: That's the guy who won an Academy Award for playing Truman Capote. He took a trifle of a scene in a stupid movie and made it ... something.

"LET IT RAIN" wasn't just the best part of "Along Came Polly"; it actually may have been the only not-terrible part of it. That shouldn't be a surprise, though. Hoffman was the best part of bad movies, good movies and great movies, because he, himself, was the best. He'll be missed.